Student Stories
The Impact Center offers resources that enable students to have transformative experiences, guiding them toward successful and fulfilling careers.
Assistant Professor of Public Health Kristen Debois utilized Impact Center support services to embed high impact experiential learning into the classroom. A project was designed to teach students how non-profit community agencies plan and budget health promotion initiatives. It was based on a "pay it forward" model for community-engaged learning.
Groups of students partnered with a local community agency and developed a health promotion program that involved a health education component where a good and/or service is delivered to clients of that agency. A panel of judges selected one project and the sponsor of the project, Muskingum Valley Health Centers, provided the funding to bring the project to life.
Pictured above are students who developed the winning health promotion program. Their project provided cooking and baking supplies to women in the Foodworks Alliance Sweet Life Baking program.